"Is There Something I Should Know?" is the eighth single from the British pop band Duran Duran. It was released in March 1983 and became the band's first UK #1 record. In fact it achieved the then extremely rare feat of entering the UK charts at #1 in it's first week of release. In New Zealand, it was the longest-running #1 single of 1983, staying atop the charts for nine weeks. It also reached #4 in the United States.

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"Is There Something I Should Know?" was recorded in London with producer Ian Little in December of 1982. The song was initially released in the UK as a stand-alone single on 19 March 1983 and later tacked onto the 1983 United States reissue of the band's debut album Duran Duran. The first long-playing album in the UK on which the song featured was the inaugural Now That's What I Call Music compilation at the end of the year.

The singles from the Duran Duran album did not receive much airplay in the United States on the album's first release; both the band and the New Romantic genre were unknown, and very few British bands were able to break into American radio at that time. However, at the end of 1982 the band's second album Rio was rapidly climbing the American charts, fueled by around-the-clock airplay of several different videos on MTV. The band and their label, Capitol/EMI, decided to re-release the debut album in the United States with the inclusion of this newly recorded single.

Please please tell me now
Please please tell me now
Please please tell me now
Please please tell me now
I made a break I run out yesterday
Tried to find my mountain hideaway
Maybe next year maybe no go
I know you're watching me every minute of the day yeah
I've seen the signs and the looks and the pictures
They give your game away yeah
There's a dream that strings the road
With broken glass for us to hold
And I cut so far before I had to stay
Please please tell me now
Is there something i should know
Is there something I should say
That would make you come my way
Do you feel the same 'cos you don't let it show
People stare and cross the road from me
And jungle drums they all clear the way for me
Can you read my mind can you see in the snow
And fiery demons all dance
When you walk through that door
Don't say you're easy on me
You're about as easy as a nuclear war
Cos the dream that strings the road
With broken glass for us to hold
And I got so far before I had to say
Please please tell me now
Is there something I should know
Is there something I should say
That would make you come my way
Do you feel the same 'cos you don't let it show
Please please tell me now
Is there something I should know
Is there something I should say
That would make you come my way
Please please tell me now
Can you see what makes me blow
Can you see how much I die
Every time it passes by
Please please tell me now
What it takes to make you show
Is there something I should know
Is there something I should know

The memorable and much-played video for "Is There Something I Should Know?" featured color clips of the band members, in blue shirts with tucked-in white ties, interspersed with surreal images in black-and-white.
It was directed by Russell Mulcahy, and was one of the most popular videos of 1983 on MTV.

Asked if there was anything about their videos they'd like to change, drummer Roger Taylor commented, "The only part of a video I would change is the end of "Is There Something I Should Know" where I am singing to the camera. I look very uncomfortable doing this and cringe every time I see it to this day." [1]

The b-side to "Is There Something I Should Know?" was the instrumental "Faith in this Colour". An alternate slow mix of "Faith in this Colour" was used on the initial release of the UK 7" single, some pressings of which included brief unauthorized sound samples from the movie Star Wars -- these were promptly withdrawn when copyright concerns were raised.

The mainly instrumental "Monster Mix" of "Is There Something I Should Know?" was completed by producers Ian Little and Alex Sadkin.

The song debuted in the #1 position on the UK charts on 26 March 1983. Duran Duran were one of the very few acts since Elvis Presley and The Beatles to debut at the top, before the advent of more aggressive marketing methods in the late 1980s made it a much easier goal to achieve.

The single also had great success in America, where it was released in late May: it reached #4 on the Billboard charts on 6 August 1983 and sold more than a million copies.